Millett, Mervyn Richard Oke (1910 - 1988)

Born on 16 May 1910, in Sydney, NSW, Australia; died on 12 May 1988 (aged 77) in Victoria, Australia.

He received his early education in private and state schools in New South Wales. He is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and has past associations with the Canberra University College before it merged with the Australian National University.

His interest in trees quickened in 1934 at the Forestry and Timber Bureau and the Australian Forestry School, Canberra, where he became Research Officer and part-time lecturer, being mainly engaged on investigations into the relationship between tree growth (particularly Monterey Pine) and the climatic environment.

His work in Canberra was followed by eight years as Senior Research Officer (economic policy) at the Tariff Board, Melbourne, before it was transferred to Canberra in 1960. After that he remained in Melbourne as Editor of the scientific reports and other publications of Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions.

He was Research Officer with the Commonwealth Meteorological Bureau while a part-time Lecturer in Forest Meteorology at the Australian Forestry School.

He built a home amongst the trees at Tecoma in the Dandenong Ranges east of Melbourne.

Manuscript and typescript drafts of papers on the climate of the Canberra region, weather and welfare in Australia, and eucalypts including illustrations, diagrams and photographs, list of publications, bibliographical writings, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, files on astronomy, eucalyptus distribution, and water, 1944-73, are held in the Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science.

Source: Extracted from:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/123896788/mervyn_richard_oke-millett
http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000646b.htm
Back cover flap, 'Native Trees of Australia', Mervyn Millett, Landsdown Press, 1971.

Collecting localities for 'Millett, M.R.O.' from AVH (2024)

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